About us

Goals

To provide:

1. The best clear, concise, clinical evidence that improves cost-effective care.
2. Evidence-Based Dentistry training for clinicians, academics, and chief dental officers.

Methods    

Validated, high quality clinical evidence is distilled from the following sources:

• Evidence-Based Dentistry Journal
• The Cochrane Library
• NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence)
• SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network)

Two lay individuals, followed by two oral health professionals trained in EBD, review and distill the information.

Collaboration    

• Evidence-Based Dentistry Journal, Nature Publishing, London, UK
• Fulbright Scholar Program, Washington, DC, USA
• International Association for Dental Research, Washington, DC, USA
• Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA

          And

• Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry, Oxford, UK
• Forsyth Institute, Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry, Boston, MA, USA
• University of Valparaiso, Graduate School of Dentistry, , Valparaiso, Chile
• University of Pernambuco, Dental School, , Recife, Brazil

Funding    

The Pan American Centers for Evidence Based Dentistry were established with seed funding from the International Association of Dental Research and the Fulbright Scholar Program.